Re: Emacs 23.2.90 pretest

From:

Sean Sieger

Subject:

Re: Emacs 23.2.90 pretest

Date:

Wed, 10 Nov 2010 21:53:16 -0500

User-agent:

Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.0.50 (windows-nt)

Jason Rumney <address@hidden> writes:
On 10/11/2010 06:41, Sean Sieger wrote:
> The "make dist" target was added to nt/makefile.w32-in only in the
> trunk.
>
> Is there a problem with generating the Windows binaries for the
23.2.9x
> pretest the old way (i.e., however it was done before July)?
>
> In May I was copying admin/nt/makedist.bat from the trunk to the top
> directory of the pretests and release and using it to produce the
> distributions (not the binaries in them).
>
You shouldn't need to copy the file, just use it where it is in the
checked out tree. If it is no longer there in trunk, you'll need to
get a working copy of the emacs23 branch first though.
Oof---It's all a distant memory ...
Um, yeah, I remember having to copy makedist.bat to c:\ in order for
make to find the distfiles in admin\nt.
Now, however, it didn't find ...
WARNINGS for files:
emacs-23.2.90\bin : The system cannot find the file specified.
emacs-23.2.90\etc\DOC-X : The system cannot find the file specified.
Ooor, maybe I don't know what I am doing. But I gotta go to sleep and
work on this when I return from the studio.